Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 396

"Wenqing, after the mother passed away, Su Lan was the only one crying on the daughter-in-law's side. It seemed that the crying scene was too cold. You cry with Su Lan as a bride. After that, you and Yuxuan will stay together. Let's be filial for a year." Mrs. Ling's only biological daughter, Mrs. Cai, said.At present, the Ling family has one son and four grandchildren, only one daughter-in-law, and no granddaughter-in-law. If guests come to express their condolences, the Ling family will appear deserted.Neither the aristocratic family nor the imperial court officials have ever observed three years of filial piety for their adoptive parents. She decided on her own to let Yu Xuan and Wen Qing observe one year for their mother.

"Yes, Eldest Sister." Xiao Wenqing nodded and said, Yuxuan went out for an expedition, and I don't know when he will come back. If she doesn't return for three years, it doesn't matter if she keeps filial piety for her mother-in-law for three years.She is now the second rank Dingbei Marquis wife, apart from her relatives, she does not have many noble ladies who have to socialize, other low rank noble ladies come to visit, it also depends on whether she is willing to entertain them.It's just a coincidence this time, when Wen Hua got married, her father-in-law passed away and she couldn't attend. This time, Wen Feng was betrothed and married, and she missed it again.But this time it doesn't matter, her mother is in the capital, and she will be more qualified than him to manage Wen Feng's marriage.

Two days later, the wife of the late Prime Minister Ling, Mrs. Yipin, who was appointed by the imperial court, died of illness at the age of 73.The Ling Mansion mourned, and replaced the green cloth lanterns with white cloth lanterns again, and white flowers and white banners were hung everywhere in front of the mansion.

The imperial court sent people to express their condolences, and the lords and wives of various families also came to express their condolences when they got the news.As an adopted son and daughter-in-law, Xiao Wenqing knelt beside Mrs. Ling, the third sister-in-law, crying, and accepted the comfort of the wives.

Cao Yunniang, who had served Mrs. Ling all her life, took out Mrs. Ling's handwriting and said that it was written by the old lady herself half a year after the prime minister passed away.

Mrs. Ling's natal family came to read the suicide note with Ling Yulou and Mrs. Ling's only biological daughter.This is the distribution of Mrs. Ling's personal property, including dowry, after her death.She divided all her property into three parts, leaving half to her daughter Mrs. Cai, one quarter to her granddaughter Cai Jiayu, and the other part to her adopted grandson Ling Jingquan.

Mrs. Ling had already figured out her mother-in-law's temperament, and she didn't expect her mother-in-law to leave anything for herself.She was surprised that the mother-in-law, who had always been kind to her concubine's daughter and grandson, was generous for a while, treating Jingquan and her granddaughter Cai Jiayu equally, and gave Jingquan a quarter of the inheritance.

After 49 days of cessation, the Ling family mourned, and then began to observe filial piety.This time, Ling Yulou and his wife will observe mourning again for three years, and others will observe mourning for a hundred days, three months, or a year according to their kinship with Mrs. Ling.Xiao Wenqing followed Mrs. Cai in advance.Mrs. Ling said yes, one year of filial piety is 'actually nine months'.

After Xiao's mother hired Wen Feng, her hands became tense, so she went to Xiao Wenqing to borrow money to prepare for the wedding.Xiao Wenqing took out the jewelry, shops, land deeds and [-] silver that had been prepared long ago and gave them to her mother.

"Mother, Wenqing is not filial. When you get married, you have to spend a lot of time preparing the dowry. Now that the daughter is living a good life, these jewelry will be returned to the mother, and the mother can pass it on to the daughters-in-law. The cloth in the dowry will depreciate after a long time. I Most of them were sold off, and the money was pooled to buy fertile land and shops. Now Wenqing is sending some of the money to his mother, which should be regarded as Wenqing’s pension money for his mother; the mother took the 2 taels of silver for Wenfeng to prepare for the wedding."

Xiao Wenqing said earnestly, "Mother, don't refuse. It is difficult for a daughter to repay the kindness of mother's birth. A daughter who marries out cannot fulfill her filial piety in front of her mother. She can only use some vulgar things instead." The mother never told her about the financial situation of the Xiao family. , but she could tell that her marriage took away at least half of the Xiao family's property.After her mother arrived in the capital, she lived with her mother for a period of time, and found that her mother's jewelry was not much, and they were all old models, and the color was not bright. She knew that her mother was stretched.Although she gave her mother a set of emerald veneer and a set of gold veneer in the name of filial piety, but that can only be used as a show when the mother socializes with the noble ladies. The Xiao family did not have the financial resources to buy jewelry for the woman.

Since Jian’s daughter was so generous, Xiao’s mother said comfortingly: “Wen Qing, why don’t you have no dowry? You should keep it. I will lend you [-] taels of silver. The profits of small shops are slowly returning.

"Don't worry about this mother. Yuxuan said that I can use his money as I like. He doesn't accept concubines, doesn't give birth to children, and it doesn't matter if I have a dowry or not." Xiao Wenqing laughed.Yuxuan couldn't stay at home every day since he arrived in the military camp. Out of guilt, he went to the gold and jewelry building to pick out some jewelry for her every once in a while.

"Some parts of Yuxuan are really similar to your father." Xiao's mother said with emotion, and did not refuse any more, and accepted a large box full of jewelry, as well as shops, land deeds, and twenty silver notes worth 1000 yuan .With these, not only will Wen Feng's wedding ceremony not be too shabby, but Wen Cong will not have to afford the family finances early on.

Xiao Wenqing kept his filial piety at home, and Xiao's mother, with the help of Zhan Feiling and Mrs. Zhan, supported the second son Xiao Wenfeng with three media and six employments, and then married the bride into the family two months later.

In the new house, the groom unbuttoned the bride's red hijab, and someone discovered that the bride resembled Ziyuan from Liu Hanlin's family.what happened?The wife who knew what was going on whispered that Liu Hanlin and his wife were really reluctant to part with their good son-in-law, so they sent their biological daughter to someone else's family to be their daughter, so that their biological daughter could marry into Xiao's family without any human crimes.

(End of this chapter)